NAME
   rpc_intro - Introduction to DCE RPC daemon and RPC control program
               commands

 DESCRIPTION

   DCE RPC provides two administrative facilities, the RPC daemon and
   the RPC control program.  These facilities are superceded by the
   DCE Host daemon (dced) and the DCE control program (dcecp) as of OSF
   DCE version 1.1.

     +  The RPC daemon is a process that provides the Endpoint Map
        Service, which maintains the local endpoint map for local RPC
        servers and looks up endpoints for RPC clients.  An endpoint is
        the address of a specific instance of a server executing in a
        particular address space on a given system (a server instance).
        Each endpoint can be used on a system by only one server at a
        time.

        An endpoint map  is a database where servers register their
        binding information, including endpoints, for each of their
        RPC interfaces and the associated RPC objects.  Each
        combination of binding information, interface identifier, and
        object UUID uses a distinct element in the local endoint map.
        The RPC daemon is started via the DCE setup program
        (@SYS$MANAGER:DCE$SETUP.COM).

     +  The control program provides a set of commands for accessing the
        operations of the RPC name service interface (NSI).  For managing
        endpoint maps, the control program supports showing endpoint map
        elements and removing any set of map elements from the local
        endpoint map or from any remote endpoint map.
        The rpccp command starts the RPC control program (RPCCP).

 EXIT VALUES

   The RPC control program reports DCE error messages on the command line.
   If the command executes successfully, the internal value returned is 1
   (OpenVMS success); otherwise, the value is even (OpenVMS failure).

   This is different from other DCE implementations, but allows the use of
   standard OpenVMS mechanisms to determine success or failure upon return
   from a DCE utility program.

 RELATED INFORMATION

   Commands: dced, dcecp, rpccp

   Books: OSF DCE Administration Guide
          OSF DCE Application Development Guide-Core Components
          OSF DCE Application Development Reference